Synonyms for topography
təˈpɒg rə fito·pog·ra·phy

Princeton's WordNet

1. topographynoun

   the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features

2. topographynoun

   precise detailed study of the surface features of a region

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1. • Geography
   • Shape

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1. List of paraphrases for "topography":

   topographies, topographic, surveying, terrain, topographical, landform

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1. Detroit Mayor Jim Trett:

   Lake Detroit's the same topography : three canyons coming down like a funnel into the city of Paradise at the bottom of the funnel, when I heard that two years ago I said, that's Lake Detroit.

2. Tiffany Davila:

   Due to the lack of precipitation that we have had, it’s basically kindling, So, when you take the drought-stricken fuel coupled with the extreme heat, the wind that we’ve had this year and then — in some places, you know, where a fire may start — the topography, the terrain: all of that can go into how active a fire is.

3. Alan Stern:

   The steep topography means that the bedrock that makes those mountains must be made of H2O -- of water ice, we can be very sure that the water is there in great abundance.

4. Peter James:

   When we combined that with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered the unexpectedly large amount of mass hundreds of miles underneath the South Pole-Aitken basin, one of the explanations of this extra mass is that the metal from the asteroid that formed this crater is still embedded in the Moons mantle.

5. Mandy Joye:

   We saw a lot of really interesting topography, which made me scratch my head.